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gorge_300427
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Apr 24, 2017

Proxies

I was reading about the concise guide to Proxies and still left confused. I understood what a forward proxy is. But yet have doubt about the other three.   Half Proxy :- I understood that incomin...
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Vijay_E
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Apr 24, 2017

From my understanding, a full proxy has a full tcp stack (L1-L7) for the client side connection and another full tcp stack for the server side connection (L1-L7). This enables manipulation of all layers of an incoming packet. Example: F5

 

Half proxy doesn't have the same level of feature to manipulate a packet L1-L7 on client and server-side of the connection. Example: Cisco CSS. Can manipulate up to L7 for client side but only L4 manipulation of packets for server-side.